
Opinion & Essay
City sales tax 33% higher than burbs—anybody care?
One of the oddest things that’s emerged from the Philadelphia school funding package worked out in Harrisburg in June is that it lo ...
12 years ago
The bipartisan tradition of dissing presidents
In just a few purportedly pithy paragraphs – while marshalling brain cells for a morning radio show – I want to flag the stor ...
12 years ago
Review: ‘Macbeth’ as a stage company’s added attraction
The no-nonsense staging and smooth interpretation that Commonwealth Classic Theater Company is giving “Macbeth” in West Phila ...
12 years ago
Letter: School-based clinics failed once; why bring them back?
A handful of Philadelphia schools had school-based clinics back in the ’90s. They all failed and were closed. It would be a good th ...
12 years ago
Review: A gender-swapped ‘Earnest,’ in all but name
A decade or so back, a stage production that bent the genders of that most delicious boy-chases-girl comedy, “The Importance of Bei ...
12 years ago
Mandatory voting is a great idea
It has surely escaped your notice that Australia is staging a national election on Sept. 7. I mention this only because the Aussies ...
12 years ago
Hillary gets serious, Priebus gets silly
If Hillary Clinton does run for president in 2016, Republicans will need weaponry far more potent than the silly bleatings of Reince Prie ...
12 years ago
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